Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine /
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Author / Creator: | Janik, Erika, author. |
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Imprint: | Boston : Beacon Press, [2014] |
Description: | 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9904610 |
ISBN: | 9780807022085 (hbk. : alk. paper) 080702208X (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780807022092 (ebk.) 0807022098 (ebook) 9780807022092 (ebook) |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index. |
Summary: | "A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket. |


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